Repeat 7 The War on Yugoslavia Twenty Years Later: NATO's First 'Humanitarian' War

(Repeat broadcast of March 22, 2019 episode) This week's Global Research News Hour marks the 20th anniversary of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia with four expert interviews. Professor Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics and Founder Director of Centre for Research on Globalization provides the geopolitical and economic background for the war. Živadin Jovanović, provides his insights into the NATO attacks as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Federation of Yugoslavia during that time. James Bissett, a former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, explains his outspokenness against the war at the time and since, and outlines the new precedent it sets for the institutions of world order. Scott Taylor, former soldier, journalist and current publisher/editor of Esprit de Corps magazine relays his observations of what he saw and experienced on the ground during the war, and his assessment of the 'independent' status of the 'liberated' Kosovo.